There is going to be an intense burst of rain is and it’s going to drench parts of Australia this weekend with a month’s worth of rain falling in just two days. New South Wales will experience the downpour from Friday as the system moves across from Western Australia.

South Australia get the rain before NSW and Queensland. Experts claim 50mm of rain will fall on Friday in Sydney and Newcastle and Central Coast and the wet weather will continue through the weekend. Tamworth and its surrounds will have between 75 and 90 per cent chance of rain with as much of 80mm could fall in northern parts of the state. Throughout the entire month of August, Newcastle has only received around 1.4mm of rain with the average normally being 55mm.